The speaker will be Jake Ahlgrim, who is a Security Consultant for Trustwave with over 16 years of experience in the Information Security field. Mr. Ahlgrim is a veteran of the United States Air Force and possesses over 10 years of experience in providing information assurance expertise in the defense contracting industry, most recently as an auditor for the Defense Information Services Agency (DISA). In addition to possessing his Certified Information Security Systems Professional (CISSP) and Certified Ethical Hacker (C|EH) certifications, Mr. Ahlgrim is a Qualified Security Assessor for the payment card industry

For many IT pros, our days start with the same activity: surfing to catch up. We skim our Twitter feeds, view and perhaps download The Picture of the Day from some amazing photo site, check the weather, peek at eBay to see if that prized item is selling under $100 yet, or whatever. That’s great, but what isn’t so great is the fact that most of us are gathering those data the same way we’ve been doing it for it for twenty years — by clicking around in a web browser. Hey, it’s the 21st century, and IT pros hoping to remain employed are automating things, so it’s time to turn The Robot Hand of PowerShell to our daily web data-gathering tasks, whether personal- or business-related. In this talk, Mark introduces web browsing the PoSH way… even if you don’t know PowerShell!